-----Original Message----- From: Majorville@aol.com <Majorville@aol.com> To: ilhancoc-l-request@rootsweb.com <ilhancoc-l-request@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 12:30 PM Subject: A Calendar for Hancock County Hello all of you Hancock County Researchers, My name is Marcia Farina. I agree with all the folks who have written to say that Hancock County and the surrounding areas are in a lovely, green and flowing, fertile area of the country. No wonder some of those pioneers chose to end their western treks and put down roots there. Some of my earliest memories swirl around Fountain Green, where my Pogue Grandparents farmed for over 50 years and where the little Majorville country church abuts the farm they owned: several generations of my family are buried there - on both my mother's and father's side of the family; the doves coo gently over them, in sympathetic mourning of lives well-lived, or not, in some cases. (And where they used to hold ice cream socials and sometimes were pelted with an offering from blackbirds that had visited the mulberry tree nearby - oh, my!) Where several generations of my grandfather McGee's family lived. With Webster, where Grandpa used to give us grandkids a dime and tell us "don't spend it a! ll in one place", when we went to the store there. With the Joetta area, where my ggg-aunt Lil Beckwith Weakley ran a General Store for over 40 years, keeping the Beckwith family under a protective wing and steely-eyed gaze, and where gg-grandfather Ben Barb had a smithy. With Crooked Creek, where we used to go wading and hunting for crawdads; years before that, Hancock County residents could catch a fine supper of catfish in that creek. I could go on for a long time, as I can document my family being there as early as 1836. With their large families, they intermarried (with so many of the surnames I see in the correspondence on the mailing list) and thrived. I had been thinking about putting together a family history calendar for my family and it dawned on me that this might be an interesting and fun project for all of us. And, by golly, we might very well find some new genealogy leads and contacts. Whether or not the Hancock website folks would have room to permanently display the calendar we could build, I don't know. We'll have to let Terasa and Shawnee answer that question. But we could start by sending information in with the subject line: ON JAN 5, YYYY, IN HANCOCK COUNTY. We could enter things like land purchases, marriages, birthdays, funerals, church and school dedications, colorful or historical neighborhood events … you get the idea. There's not much new under the sun, but I haven't seen anything like this on other area websites - maybe this idea would spread. So Terasa and Shawnee, do you think this would fly?